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I became involved with Sakhi mainly as a means of giving back to my community... Read more Create Change 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence 2005! What is 16 Days of Activism? Sakhi and the 16 days 2005 campaign 16 Days and You: Postcard campaign and events Related Resources What is 16 Days of Activism? 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence is a global campaign to end violence based on gender all over the world. The 16 days begin on November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and end on December 10, International Human Rights Day. These two dates symbolically link violence against women and human rights and emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights. The 16 days originated from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. You can read more about it and the Center for Women's Global Leadership at http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html The 16 Days Campaign is currently recognized in approximately 130 countries in the world by hundreds of organizations. The time is often used to organize events locally while raising solidarity internationally. Every year, the 16 Days Campaign has a theme raised in consultation with women's human rights advocates worldwide. The theme for this year is: "For the Health of Women, For the Health of the World: No More Violence" The focus of health emphasizes in particular the intersection of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. To learn more about these two issues, click on the Related Resources section of this page. Sakhi and the 16 Days 2005 Campaign For some years Sakhi has been planning involvement in the 16 Days of Activism. In participating, we want to both enhance our everyday work as well as build clear links between local and international work to end violence against women. For the first time in 2005, we are delighted to announce our participation in the 16 Days with the idea of building momentum and greater involvement for next year. Keeping in mind the theme and goals of this year’s 16 Days, and the diverse yet intersecting circles of the different communities we interact with, we have created three different possibilities for participation in the 16 days. Read on to find out how YOU can be part of this global movement! 16 Days and You November 25th – Dec. 10th, 2005: Web postcard campaign The idea is simple. Ending and preventing violence against women begins with the education and awareness of every individual. Creating a violence-free world takes a movement of people. How can you sitting at your computer raise awareness? How can you be part of a movement? It’s easy! We’ve made it possible for you to educate yourself about domestic violence and HIV/AIDS and to share the knowledge you gain. We have created 16 postcards (and more) for each day of the 16 days campaign. Each postcard has a fact, quote or relevant information about the intersection of HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. On each day of the 16 Days, the Send a Postcard webpage will have a new postcard. All you have to do is read it and pass it on to one new person every day during these 16 days! This way you will learn 16 (or more!) different pieces of information and reach 16 different people. Our hope, of course, is that each of the people you send a postcard to, will in turn send one on to someone they know and the movement will grow. So, don’t wait a minute longer. Send a postcard today! It doesn’t matter which day of the campaign it is – you can start anytime. Don’t have time to visit our website everyday? Not to worry – sign up to our Community E-mail list and we’ll send you a postcard everyday of the 16 days! You can send that on to one new person or several people – every day! Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005: Poster-making worshop To increase the participation of survivors of violence in the 2005 16 Days of Activism, Sakhi is holding a special poster-making workshop where survivors of violence can share their ideas on activism – for a violence-free future. For the safety and confidentiality of our clients and staff, this workshop is restricted to the women we work with and trained Sakhi volunteers. To RSVP or for more information, please contact Saveen Kaushal at saveen.kaushal@sakhi.org or 212.714.9153 x103 We thank you for your support and understanding! Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005: Making the Connections: Gender Violence and HIV/AIDS A dialogue with service providers and community organizers As a service-providing and community education organization, Sakhi is delighted to be partnering with Sanctuary For Families (Bronx), the Network for Gender Rights, CONNECT and American Friends Service Committee, to organize a half-day dialogue between service providers and community organizers in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault and HIV/AIDS. A collaborative effort, this event focuses on building the connections between gender violence (especially domestic violence and sexual assault) and HIV/AIDS into our everyday work. This conversation will help to identify some of the key issues that practitioners face and will build towards next year’s 16 days of activism! In order to have a fruitful dialogue, this number of participants for this event is restricted to 25. If you are working in the fields of HIV/AIDS, Domestic Violence and/or Sexual Assault and wish to participate, please contact Bix Gabriel at bix@sakhi.org before December 5, 2005. Related Resources For a non-comprehensive list of web-resources related to the 16 Days of Activism and domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, please click on the links below. For more information about the 16 Days Campaign: http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/kit05/calendar.html http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/16days/ For more information on HIV/AIDS: http://www.aids.org/info/FAQs.html www.apicha.org http://www.breakthrough.tv/Campaign_detail.asp?cid=12&id=2 For more information on the intersections between DV and HIV: http://www.amnestyusa.org/stopviolence/factsheets/hivaids.html http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/Nov29/she1.asp http://www.eldis.org/hivaids/vaw_consequences.htm http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/women/aids/index.htm http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/women/aids/qna.htm http://www.opdv.state.ny.us/public_awareness/bulletins/spring2001/dv_hiv.html http://thesafetyzone.org/everyone/hivaids.html http://www.thebody.com/iapac/violence-women.html http://www.thebody.com/wa/spring99/violence.html http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-49.html
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16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence 2005!

What is 16 Days of Activism?
Sakhi and the 16 days 2005 campaign
16 Days and You: Postcard campaign and events
Related Resources

What is 16 Days of Activism?

16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence is a global campaign to end violence based on gender all over the world. The 16 days begin on November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women and end on December 10, International Human Rights Day. These two dates symbolically link violence against women and human rights and emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights. The 16 days originated from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991. You can read more about it and the Center for Women's Global Leadership at http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html

The 16 Days Campaign is currently recognized in approximately 130 countries in the world by hundreds of organizations. This logo is for the 16 days of activism campaign to end gender violence The time is often used to organize events locally while raising solidarity internationally. Every year, the 16 Days Campaign has a theme raised in consultation with women's human rights advocates worldwide. The theme for this year is: "For the Health of Women, For the Health of the World: No More Violence"

The focus of health emphasizes in particular the intersection of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. To learn more about these two issues, click on the Related Resources section of this page.

Sakhi and the 16 Days 2005 Campaign

For some years Sakhi has been planning involvement in the 16 Days of Activism. In participating, we want to both enhance our everyday work as well as build clear links between local and international work to end violence against women. For the first time in 2005, we are delighted to announce our participation in the 16 Days with the idea of building momentum and greater involvement for next year.

Keeping in mind the theme and goals of this year’s 16 Days, and the diverse yet intersecting circles of the different communities we interact with, we have created three different possibilities for participation in the 16 days.

Read on to find out how YOU can be part of this global movement!

16 Days and You

November 25th – Dec. 10th, 2005: Web postcard campaign
The idea is simple. Ending and preventing violence against women begins with the education and awareness of every individual. Creating a violence-free world takes a movement of people.

How can you sitting at your computer raise awareness? How can you be part of a movement?

It’s easy! We’ve made it possible for you to educate yourself about domestic violence and HIV/AIDS and to share the knowledge you gain. We have created 16 postcards (and more) for each day of the 16 days campaign. Each postcard has a fact, quote or relevant information about the intersection of HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. On each day of the 16 Days, the Send a Postcard webpage will have a new postcard. All you have to do is read it and pass it on to one new person every day during these 16 days!

This way you will learn 16 (or more!) different pieces of information and reach 16 different people. Our hope, of course, is that each of the people you send a postcard to, will in turn send one on to someone they know and the movement will grow.
So, don’t wait a minute longer. Send a postcard today!

It doesn’t matter which day of the campaign it is – you can start anytime.

Don’t have time to visit our website everyday? Not to worry – sign up to our Community E-mail list and we’ll send you a postcard everyday of the 16 days! You can send that on to one new person or several people – every day!

Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005: Poster-making worshop
To increase the participation of survivors of violence in the 2005 16 Days of Activism, Sakhi is holding a special poster-making workshop where survivors of violence can share their ideas on activism – for a violence-free future.

For the safety and confidentiality of our clients and staff, this workshop is restricted to the women we work with and trained Sakhi volunteers. To RSVP or for more information, please contact Saveen Kaushal at saveen.kaushal@sakhi.org or 212.714.9153 x103
We thank you for your support and understanding!

Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005: Making the Connections: Gender Violence and HIV/AIDS
A dialogue with service providers and community organizers

As a service-providing and community education organization, Sakhi is delighted to be partnering with Sanctuary For Families (Bronx), the Network for Gender Rights, CONNECT and American Friends Service Committee, to organize a half-day dialogue between service providers and community organizers in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault and HIV/AIDS.

A collaborative effort, this event focuses on building the connections between gender violence (especially domestic violence and sexual assault) and HIV/AIDS into our everyday work. This conversation will help to identify some of the key issues that practitioners face and will build towards next year’s 16 days of activism!

In order to have a fruitful dialogue, this number of participants for this event is restricted to 25. If you are working in the fields of HIV/AIDS, Domestic Violence and/or Sexual Assault and wish to participate, please contact Bix Gabriel at bix@sakhi.org before December 5, 2005.

Related Resources

For a non-comprehensive list of web-resources related to the 16 Days of Activism and domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, please click on the links below.

For more information about the 16 Days Campaign:
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/kit05/calendar.html
http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/16days/

For more information on HIV/AIDS:
http://www.aids.org/info/FAQs.html
www.apicha.org
http://www.breakthrough.tv/Campaign_detail.asp?cid=12&id=2

For more information on the intersections between DV and HIV:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stopviolence/factsheets/hivaids.html
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/Nov29/she1.asp
http://www.eldis.org/hivaids/vaw_consequences.htm
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/women/aids/index.htm
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/women/aids/qna.htm
http://www.opdv.state.ny.us/public_awareness/bulletins/spring2001/dv_hiv.html
http://thesafetyzone.org/everyone/hivaids.html
http://www.thebody.com/iapac/violence-women.html
http://www.thebody.com/wa/spring99/violence.html
http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-49.html

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